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DAVID D. cox. 0F TROY, NEW YORK.,

Lenen Patent No. 80,920, aged Mgmt-11, 186s.

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Be it known that I, D-e'vID B. COX, of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented a Reversible Venti'iating-Qheck Damper for Stoves; and I doherebydeclare that the following is a full and exact' description thereof, reference `being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of thisv specicationa v Figure 1 being a sid'e elevation of a stove with my reversibleiamper applied thereto.

Figure 2, a face -view'ot' the damper,v with a section of the pipe to which it `is attached.

Like letters designate corresponding parte in both iigures.

Lc'tiB represent the outlet-pipe, `or' thimble, ot'- the stevie 1L Sometimes the pipe C is required to extend upward` from the outlet B, as indicated by black lines D, eind sometimes downward, as indicated by red lines D in fig. 1. l

It is'vjery desirablethat the air admitted through the Ventilating-check damper F should-flou into'the pipe.V

and join the draught from the stove, in the same direction 'as said draught passes. Thus, if' the pipe extends upwardi'rom the outlet, the checkdamper should be applied-so that the 'air shall ascend in joining the draught, andlvz'ce versa. i n i f Y v i By the application of my simpleinvention, with one damper, the pipe may be applied so as to extendeither upward or downward, and y'et the air be` admitted in the direction of the draught, as desired. `The, invention 'consists in the attachment of the damper F to closed extension, c, of the pipe 0,'-111 the l direction opposite to'that'of the regular portion of the pipe. '.Phfrextension need not be oflany great extent,

just suilicient for attaching the damper,` and for fully turning the air admitted 'thereby in the direction of the draught of the stove.- v

Thus constructed, all that is required is to turn the damper-extension c downward, if the stove-pipe'is required to extend upward, as shownby black lines in iig. 1, or to turn the extension upward, if the stove-pipe is to turn downward, as lindicated by redlines in the same figure. A n

It is not vabsolutely essential that the direction of the extension should be opposite to' that of the pipe a. di'ercnt direction, -at some other angle than opposite, might serve the purpose, though' not so well in all respects.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by- Letters Patent, is

The reversible Ventilating-checkdamper, consisting of a damperUF, attached to' an extension, c, of the stovpipeC, projecting in o .dii'ection `opposite to ordiiferent from the said pipe, and reversible with it, substuminlly us and 'for the purpose herein specified.

Y The above specification of m'y reversible ventilatiuglcheck damper, signed by me, this twenty-sixth day of March, 1868. i

DAVID I3. cox. Witnesses:

J. S. Bnowx, Epu. -F. BnowN. 

